Startpage
Privacy-focused search engine that uses Google results minus trackers and ads, it stores no personal data, offers Anonymous View, and breaks filter bubbles for diverse results, built by Surfboard Holding B.V., Startpage is committed to privacy by controlling user data.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Tor
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Built-In Proxy
- No Tracking
- Deletion after timeout
- Dark Mode
- GDPR Compliant
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Video search
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Block Trackers
- Built-in VPN
Tags
- Encryption
- Anonymity
- Privacy Protection
- private-search
- international-phone-search
- proxy-search
- Search Engine
Startpage News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is Startpage?
Why did we create Startpage.com?
As kids, we’re all taught not to touch stuff that doesn’t belong to us. It’s a good guideline. So why are online companies harvesting our personal data without our consent? They shouldn’t. That’s why we’re developing online tools that help you stay in control of your personal information. Search is done. Expect other private versions of common digital services soon. Why? Because it’s our belief that personal data should be your data, not Big Data. Period.
How we made search private
You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. The result: The world’s best and most private search engine. Only now you can search without ads following you around, recommending products you’ve already bought. And no more data mining by companies with dubious intentions. We want you to dance like nobody’s watching and search like nobody’s watching.
No personal data storage
We don’t collect or share your personal information. Ever. There’s literally no data about you on our servers. None. We can’t profile you, and we can’t be forced to hand over your data to authorities, simply because we don’t have any data to hand over.
Anonymous View
Clicking search results means leaving the protection of Startpage.com. This could lead to a barrage of cookies being installed on your device. That’s why we developed the "Anonymous View" feature. With "Anonymous View" you can visit search results in full privacy, and keep on browsing: They’ll never know you were there. You’ll find the feature next to every search result.
No filter bubble
Other search engines use your search habits to serve you results they think you want, essentially trapping you in an echo chamber of results. With Startpage.com, you break through the filter bubble to see a wider variety of results.
Startpage Videos
Startpage information
Developed by
Surfboard Holding B.V. (System1) Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3.5Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Startpage fetches its results from Google while obfuscating all personally identifiable information from your query.
[Edited by Kapp96, March 26] Fixed spelling errors
Sold to an ad company called System1.
It's just Google in another skin. Since it's proprietary it's possible it's actually worse for your privacy.
I think it's one of the best search engines. It doesn't use artificial intelligence for searches, which I prefer. It can visit websites through its Proxy and lets you choose whether to use the closest (or fastest) servers or servers in the US or Europe, respecting the GDPR.
The only problem with this search engine is that it might ask you to complete a CAPTCHA test if you use a VPN, which isn't ideal for a search engine that's all about protecting your data. But overall, it's a solid search tool.
Would be great if they could provide a changelog on their website Development seems to be very slow
Google in sheep's clothing, also fingerprinting users (search for "startpage fingerprinting") would avoid
Just a private way of getting Google's results and owned by an ad company, really don't have much faith in them to be honest. What happens with this ad company when they need MORE MONEY???